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Ganglion cyst

In a 2007 study of patients whose foot lumps were being surgically removed in Glasgow, 39 of 101 cases were ganglion cysts.

Ladislav Tauc

Kandel started to investigate the gill withdrawal reflex and postsynaptic potentials (PSP) in identified neurons in the abdominal ganglion of Aplysia.

Melanopsin

The first recordings of light responses from melanopsin-containing ganglion cells were obtained by David Berson and colleagues at Brown University.

Petrosal nerve

Lesser petrosal nerve (also known as the lesser superficial petrosal nerve) from the geniculate ganglion to the otic ganglion

Photosensitive ganglion cell

In 2002, Samer Hattar and colleagues, including David Berson, showed that in the rat, intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells invariably expressed melanopsin.

Ventral nerve cord

It usually consists of cerebral ganglia anteriorly with the nerve cords running down the ventral ("belly", as opposed to back) plane of the organism.


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